EcoWatch Most Read News of the Week 9/7

MOST READ NEWS OF THE WEEK Sunday, September 7, 2014

New Satellite Maps Show World’s Major Ice Caps Melting at Unprecedented Rate Over a three-year period, the researchers collected 200 million measurements in Antarctica and...

What City Will Run Out of Water First? As drought threatens more areas of the world, we’re hearing a steady stream of storiesabout cities, towns and regions whose water supply...

California Bans Plastic Bags The California Senate voted 22-15 last night to pass a statewide ban on single-use plastic bags. The bill, SB 270, will phase out...

From Fukushima to Solartopia: An Atomic Meditation On this year's anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, I had the opportunity to...

Seeds of Truth: A Response to Michael Specter’s Article in The New Yorker Seeds of Doubt contains many lies and inaccuracies that range from the mundane to grave fallacies that...

Bill McKibben on Democracy Now!: Obama’s Nonbinding Climate Deal, IPCC Report, People’s Climate March Watch below as McKibben shares with Amy Goodman and...

Pipeline Giant Handed Permit to Open Tar Sands Rail Facility With the capacity to accept 140,000 barrels of tar sands product per day, the company's rail facility serves as another step in the...

Groundbreaking Study Shows How Demand for Water Could Impact Fracking Worldwide On World Water Day, the World Resources Institute has released a study...

15 Junk Foods Disguised as Health Food Unhealthy foods are the main reason the world is fatter and sicker than ever before. Surprisingly, some of these foods are...

Top 20 ‘Dirty Denier$’ Who Accept Big Bucks from Big Polluters On the campaign trail, many candidates strive to be as innocuous...

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